PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
Founded in 1874. The rulers were...
- Raja PITAMBER DEO 1874/1879, descended
from Raja
Narayan Bhanj of the predecessor state of Baudh, also ancestor of the
Rajas
of Daspalla, married and had issue.
He died 1879.
- Raja JOGENDRA DEO 1879/1913, born about 1857, succeeded
5th October 1879, title formally recognized 21st May 1874 ( #1), a benevolent and generous ruler, he
introduced English education into the state for the first time during
his reign; married and had issue, one son and seven daughters. He died
1913.
- Raja NARAYAN PRASAD DEO (qv)
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (eldest daughter)
[Maharani Saheb of Patna], married Maharaja PRITHVIRAJ SINGH Deo of Patna.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (second daughter)
[Rani Saheb of Khariar], married Raja VIR VIKRAM SINGH Deo of Khariar.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (third daughter),
married a brother of Raja VIR VIKRAM SINGH Deo of Khariar.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fourth daughter),
married the Zamindar of Thuamal Rampur.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (fifth daughter),
married the Zamindar of Lanjigarh.
- Rajkumari (name unknown) (sixth daughter) [Rani
Saheb of Tarla], married the Raja Saheb of Tarla.
- Raja NARAYAN PRASAD DEO 1913/- , C.B.E., born 14th March
1904 and
succeeded
10th
March 1913, though the administration of the state was managed by the
court of wards until his formal installation on 14th
March 1925, educated at Rajkumar College, Raipur; during his reign, he
successfully put down a political agitation organized in Boudh in
1930/1931 and adopted stern measures against the Prajamandal Movement
in 1945. He developed the Jagti village (Yayatinagar) and renamed it
Narayan Nagar; he married Rani Satyavati Devi, daughter of Raja
BIBHUDENDRA DEO SAMANT of Athmalik.
- Raja NABIN PRASAD DEO (+), born as Rajkumar Nabin Chandra
Deb, youngest son of the Raja of Parikud. He was adopted to Baudh and
succeeded there as Raja Nabin Prasad Deo; he married Rani Surokalolini
Devi [now Rajmata Surokalolini
Devi of Baudh], born 1954, daughter of Raja SOUBHAGYA CHANDRA Dev
Birabar
Harichandan Mahapatra of Talcher, and
his wife, Rani Manjushree Devi, and had issue, one son and one daughter.
- Raja DEBENDRA PRASAD DEO (qv)
- Kumari Chitrangada Devi, married Kumar Anand Singh Deo,
the only son of Kumar
Rabindra Naryan Singh Deo of Nua Pacca II, Seraikella. (Bhubaneswar,
India)
- Raja DEBENDRA PRASAD DEO (see above)
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